Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edwin H.B. Pratt, state AVC chairman, will also address the meeting, according to Karson, and a prominent minister will offer invocation...
Public Servant. Then in 1931 Wisconsin's Governor Phil La Follette asked him to join the state's public service commission. Lilienthal walked the streets of Madison all night, turning the offer over in his mind. Next morning he telephoned his wife, asked her advice and accepted the $5,000-a-year job. La Follette said that that night Dave Lilienthal decided to make public service his career...
...Somerset Maugham wrote, at 65: "The profession of authorship is on the whole a healthy one and authors are apt to live on long after they have given the world whatever of significance they had to offer." Still healthy at 73, "Willie" Maugham finds the manufacture of short stones without significance a habit he can't shuck...
...heirs decided that Boswell had embarrassed the family enough during his lifetime, and kept his papers hidden. Eventually the papers moved, with Boswell's great-great-grandson and heir, Lord Talbot de Malahide, to Malahide Castle in Ireland. Famed U.S. collector Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach cabled Lord Talbot an offer of $250,000 for the Malahide Papers. Said Lord Talbot: "Who is this person? Please ask him not to correspond with me. We have not been introduced...
...Turner ranch, and down into the second and third generations, Old 81st's descendants added more glory to his name. One of his sons, T. Royal Rupert 60th, drew a cash offer -refused-of $60,000. A great-grandson, Del Zento I, sold last year for a record price of $51,000 (TIME, Jan. 14, 1946). All told, Old 81st's descendants were valued at well over...